jol thomson

Jol Thomson is an artist and musician living and working in Toronto, Canada.
He works with audio, video, and in live performance integrating one or both of these elements.
Here rectangleBox presents 3 recent video works:

-No pronoun-

As an investigation of my self, is meant to be a sort of self portrait;
an attempt at extending internal life and conflicts onto a video screen.
Various conflicts are presented formally: the juxtaposition between analogue video format and the new digital format creates a tension between the text and the imagery.
A diatribe on the lack of connectedness among the ‘us’, the ‘our’, the ‘we’.

-FLASHBACK-

A structuralist video - the sound and abstraction that is personal memory.
The video illuminates its own medium both instrumentally and philosophically, showing how memory is an abstraction and how we remember things incorrectly.

-Untitled(butcher)-

(In Collaboration with danielle Williams)
Exploring the layers of linguistic complexity involved in the mere act of trying to communicate. . . arbitrary definitions become a filter that both provide and prevent access to meaning.

-Jol Thomson 2008

To hear music, visit Jol’s audio project Ultragalapogous, on myspace HERE*